There is no rule as to what each HTML page needs in order to display something in a browser. Providing the document ends with either the .htm or .html extension the browser will attempt to make sense of the text that the document contains. In order to have some kind of consistency in coding and how your page will display over many platforms there are four basic tags that should be on every page. Although it is not the most exciting page we've produced the following code demonstrates the basic HTML page.

<html>
<!--The <html> </html> tags should be used to begin and end every HTML document you create.
-->
<head>
<!--The <head> </head> tags are used to begin and end the document's header information.
-->
<title>CodeAve.com(Basic HTML Page)</title>
<!--The <title> </title> tags define the name of the document and display in the browser title bar. -->
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!--The <body> </body> tags define the documents body.
Here we've also used the bgcolor command to make the
color of the page white
-->